Half-Life 2 player numbers on Steam have shot up following an anniversary update released last week, resulting in the game reaching its highest concurrent Steam player count since its release. A…
November 18, 2024 | 09:16 EST
If you've been waiting for a chance to play Half-Life: Alyx but you don't own a VR headset, your day may very well have come. Half-Life: Alyx NoVR is, as the name suggests, a mod that lets you play…
April 10, 2023 | 10:37 EDT
Look up in the sky. What do you see? Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No! It's another Half-Life Alyx mod! Bad jokes aside, Half-Life: Alyx - Levitation is a new campaign mod that adds 3-4 hours of…
November 25, 2022 | 10:41 EST
A new Half-Life 2 mod has been released, and unlike many other mods, this one isn't adding any huge new content or overhauling mechanics. Instead, it just mirrors the entire game, so everything that…
September 12, 2022 | 09:29 EDT
If you have a VR setup and want to play more Half-Life after Half-Life: Alyx, you'll soon be able to play Half-Life 2 thanks to the Half-Life 2: VR mod launching its Open Beta in September 2022.…
August 10, 2022 | 09:30 EDT
An interesting new Half-Life: Alyx mod has just released: Half-Life: Incursion, which is a wave-based Half-Life: Alyx mod that has been created by professionals working in the gaming industry. There'…
July 29, 2022 | 10:10 EDT
New gameplay footage of the canceled Half-Life Ravenholm game has been revealed by Noclip, giving us insight into a Half-Life game we never got to play. Back in 2020, documentary company…
May 4, 2022 | 03:43 EDT
Have you ever wanted to play a Half-Life 2 Star Fox mod that replaces Alyx Vance with Krystal? Well, that's exactly what modder Gagnetar is creating. His new Half-Life 2 Krystal mod swaps out Gordon…
April 15, 2022 | 11:47 EDT
Modding is a proud tradition that goes a long way back in video games, and with Steam Workshop that tradition is continued with mods such as Return to Rapture Chapter Two, the second mod that Patient…
March 14, 2022 | 10:22 EDT
Players looking for a new fan-made VR adventure will soon have the opportunity to play a new Half-Life: Alyx mod. Known as From Here to There, this Half-Life: Alyx mod is a campaign that will have…
January 17, 2022 | 10:06 EST
Fair warning: the next Black Mesa update is going to brick your saves. Crowbar Collective says this is an unfortunate side effect of needing to make changes to levels in order to implement some of…
August 25, 2021 | 09:01 EDT
Update - 11:30 AM August 14th, It's official, Lambda Generation's Half-Life 2 Breaking the Bar event has officially led to the community shattering the Half-Life 2 peak player count record…
August 14, 2021 | 07:40 EDT
The Half-Life: Alyx Commentary Update has finally arrived, letting players experience some neat behind-the-scenes surprises from the developers of the virtual reality game starring Gordon Freeman's …
November 12, 2020 | 02:37 EST
Half-Life 2: Remastered has been found on SteamDB, with a cool little logo and everything. That doesn't mean it's the real thing, as even the SteamDB staff has made a statement stating that it's "…
May 7, 2020 | 01:04 EDT
Sit back, relax. It's time to regale you the wondrous tale of Valve's most iconic Gnome. Chompski is a recurring garden gnome in some of Valve's games. In Half-Life 2: Episode 2, he can be brought…
April 4, 2020 | 11:00 EDT
Half-Life: Alyx, the first official Valve Half-Life game in thirteen years, is upon us, and it's a VR-only game. Even so, dataminers have managed to unearth a slightly broken non-VR mode that appears…
March 26, 2020 | 09:22 EDT
Half-Life 2: Episode Two left us on an agonizing cliffhanger with Eli Vance's sudden death. Now, thirteen years later, the next chapter in Valve's signature franchise is finally here. In Half-Life:…
March 28, 2020 | 12:00 EDT
While the missing DOOM Eternal soundtrack has been pretty bad news for fans of great gaming music, there's also some good news in the audio department today — the entire Half-Life soundtrack is now…
March 12, 2020 | 03:00 EDT
If you've been hoping for a Valve Index restock before Half-Life: Alyx drops, there's good news and bad news. The good news is that a restock is coming within the week. The bad news is that Valve…
March 4, 2020 | 04:38 EST
Valve has released not one, not two, but three (!) Half-Life: Alyx gameplay trailers — and there's a wealth of information contained within. While all of these trailers reveal multiple new…
March 2, 2020 | 02:46 EST
After more than 14 years (!), the Black Mesa release date has finally been announced by Crowbar Collective. If you're unfamiliar with Black Mesa, that's the name of the Area 51-esque…
February 26, 2020 | 09:00 EST
Black Mesa is a fan-made mod gone commercial that beautifully recreated the entirety of the original Half-Life in the Source engine. The original Half-Life is well-regarded as one of the best first-…
February 26, 2020 | 06:59 EST
Well, it didn't take too long for a Half-Life: Alyx leak to pop up online. A few tidbits of computer code have been discovered which give us insight into what we might be getting from Valve's first …
December 3, 2019 | 10:30 EST
Never thought we'd see the day... After thirteen years, a new Half-Life game is finally coming, and this time it features Alyx Vance as the main character! Half-Life: Alyx is a VR-exclusive title and…
November 23, 2019 | 10:50 EST
Rejoice! Hell has frozen over, because there's a new Half Life game announced named Half-Life: Alyx. Earlier this week, a Valve Software Twitter account made in June (and already verified…
November 21, 2019 | 03:52 EST
Late Monday afternoon, Valve announced plans for a new VR game. Half-Life: Alyx is Valve's first foray into VR gaming, although many products are already available on the Steam storefront. Whether…
November 18, 2019 | 07:41 EST
Released in 2004, Half-Life 2 is considered a classic of the genre and it's importance in PC gaming, in particular, is hard to overstate with its emphasis on the gravity gun, and requiring Steam to…
September 28, 2019 | 09:37 EDT
Think of your favorite game. Now picture the NPCs of that game in your head. How often do you notice when these NPCs blink? Can you say for certain that they even do blink? Now that you’re…
September 28, 2019 | 09:36 EDT